Preface; Table of Contents; Lie groups of germs of analytic mappings; The flow completion of the Burgers equation; Enumerative geometry and knot invariants; Gerbes, (twisted) K-theory, and the supersymmetricWZW model; Current groups for non-compact manifolds and their central extensions; Traces and characteristic classes on loop spaces; New classical limits of quantum theories
Summary
The volume is a collection of refereed research papers on infinite dimensional groups and manifolds in mathematics and quantum physics. Topics covered are: new classes of Lie groups of mappings, the Burgers equation, the Chern--Weil construction in infini
